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BBC News
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Zimbabwe's main opposition party says it will reject the result of the presidential election, if reports of the outcome are confirmed.
The Movement for Democratic Change says its leader gained more than 50% of the vote but election officials say he did..
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BBC News
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Zimbabwe's ruling party has been confirmed as the winner of the first of 23 constituencies to complete a recount of votes after March's election.
The electoral commission said Zanu-PF retained its parliamentary seat in Goromonzi West.
The opposition..
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CNN
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Zimbabwe is anxiously awaiting a key court ruling which may end more than two weeks of election deadlock -- or could send the troubled nation into further turmoil if its government further delays announcing the results of the vote. The High Court is expec..
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CNN
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Prospects of resolving Zimbabwe's two-week-old election crisis appeared dim Friday after a government spokesman said President Robert Mugabe would not attend a key weekend meeting with other regional leaders. It is a reversal for Mugabe, who said Thursday..
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CNN
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Both sides in a disputed presidential election in Kenya have agreed not to pursue a recount or audit of the votes, former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said Monday as he suggested a possible solution to a bitter and bloody political crisis. The agreem..
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MSNBC
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The Russian prosecutor-general's office on Tuesday announced a forgery investigation has been opened against the campaign of an opposition candidate for the presidential election.
Prosecutor-general spokeswoman Tatiana Chernyshova said on state televis..
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BBC News
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South Korea's ruling party candidate, Chung Dong-young has conceded victory in the country's presidential election.
Exit polls show that Lee Myung-bak, the candidate for the conservative GNP party, has won more than 50% of the vote, beating UNDP candid..
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MSNBC
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Two European groups concluded that Sunday's vote "failed to meet many of the commitments and standards that we have," said Goran Lennmarker, president of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's parliamentary assembly. He said it was "not..
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CNN
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Pakistan election officials on Monday disqualified opposition party leader and former former prime minister Nawaz Sharif from participating in January parliamentary elections. A spokesman for Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League told CNN Monday that Sharif had..
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BBC News
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President Vladimir Putin has urged Russians to vote for his United Russia party in Sunday's parliamentary election, in a televised address.
"I ask you to come to the polls and vote for United Russia," he said.
President Putin, who cannot run for a t..
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BBC News
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Opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma has won Sierra Leone's presidential election run-off, say national election commission officials.
He won 54.6% of the vote while his rival Vice-President Solomon Berewa of the ruling Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP..
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CNN
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Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president-elect, was criticized by political enemies Wednesday after refusing to apologize for a post-election luxury yacht trip amid violent protests over the election result.
Sarkozy whisked his wife and son off for a tour a..
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SF Gate
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A leading opposition candidate in Nigeria's presidential election has been omitted from the official list of candidates, released Thursday by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
The candidate, Vice President Atiku Abubakar, was barred becau..
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BBC News
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The second-round run-off in Zimbabwe's disputed presidential election will be held on 27 June, the government says.
The electoral commission's announcement was made in a government gazette.
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai beat President Robert M..
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BBC News
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Gordon Brown says it has been a "bad and disappointing" election for Labour, as the party suffers its worst council results in at least 40 years.
BBC research suggests Labour won 24% of votes cast in England and Wales, behind the Tories on 44% and Lib..
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BBC News
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Zimbabwe's Electoral Commission is due to start verifying the country's delayed presidential election results.
Representatives from both the governing Zanu-PF and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change will oversee the collating process in Harar..
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BBC News
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A judge in Zimbabwe is due to rule on whether the country's electoral commission should be forced to release the presidential election results.
Southern African leaders have urged authorities to announce the results of the poll, held more than two week..
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CNN
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President Filip Vujanovic won re-election by a landslide, election monitors said Monday, cementing Montenegro's westward economic and political course since breaking away from Serbia two years ago. Sunday's presidential vote -- the tiny Adriatic nation's..
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MSNBC
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In final results of the election for parliament's lower house, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) won 99 seats, while Mugabe's ZANU-PF won 97 seats and a breakaway MDC faction won 10. One independent candidate won a seat.
Results for parliament's..
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CNN
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There was still no official results Tuesday from the weekend's presidential vote in Zimbabwe, but an election monitoring group projected that opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai was leading President Robert Mugabe. Tensions are high in the southern Afr..
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